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CHEATHAM, Henry Plummer, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Henderson, Granville
(now Vance) County, N.C., December 27, 1857; attended the public schools, and
was graduated from Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., in 1883; principal in 1883
and 1884 of the State normal school for black students at Plymouth, N.C.; moved
to Henderson, N.C., and served as register of deeds of Vance County 1884-1888;
studied law but did not practice; delegate to the State convention at Raleigh
in 1892; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1892 and 1900;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March
4, 1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the
Fifty-third Congress; recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia 1897-1901;
moved to Oxford, N.C., in 1907; superintendent of the North Carolina Colored
Orphanage at Oxford from 1907 until his death; one of the founders,
incorporators, and directors of the same institution, founded in 1887;
president of the Negro Association of North Carolina; also engaged in
agricultural pursuits and lecturing; died in Oxford, N.C., November 29, 1935;
interment in Harrisburg Cemetery.
BibliographyHenry Plummer Cheatham in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008.
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